lold mey
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lold mey
The death of the public intellectual
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“...intellectuals are not professionals denatured by their fawning service to an extremely flawed power, but—to repeat—are intellectuals with an alternative and more principled stand that enables them in effect to speak the truth to power.”
— Edward W. Said, Representations of the Intellectual
The death of the public intellectual
sladak clanak - moguce razmišljanje, always online, izloženost mozga informacijama - ali poetično rečeno
Marshall McLuhan’s famous idea “the medium is the message,” in which he suggests that the medium through which content is communicated is just as significant, and sometimes more significant, than the content itself. He wrote this thesis in the 1960s, but it feels forever relevant.
elitism is the enemy of the people
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.com“Academic life has become more professionalised. They write for each other, not for the general reader. Academic political philosophy today, for example, has zero influence on the practice of politics. I doubt now whether any politician could name a leading academic philosopher. No one would know who they were.”
— John Gray